Articles about “packaging”
Finding Which Python Packages Are Out-Of-Date
by Corey Oordt • Published 8 Apr 2011
As your projects get bigger, they collect more and more packages. It can be a chore keeping track of which packages have been updated to fix potential bugs. We have that issue and devised a simple script to tells us which installed packages could use a bit of freshening up.
Finding Out-Of-Sync Packages Across Servers With Fabric
by Corey Oordt • Published 1 Dec 2010
We have several servers that are supposed to have the same packages installed, but often get out of sync due over time. To make it easier to find these out-of-sync packages and servers, I wrote a quick fabric script to do the checking for me.